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Ok, so I was driving today -- and when I'm driving and not picking my nose, I'm thinking. I got to thinking about China this past summer, how it would be cool to go again this coming summer, and thunked to myself: But you don't have any money, Zach. None a-'tall.
But I could! Maybe. And this is where some of your expertise may help me.
I was thinking of writing a travelly-type book about Beijing. I want to make it directed toward college students, focusing a lot on the nightlife, the restaurants, cool places to go. And I'd include direction cards, both with maps and directions written in Chinese that one could hand to one's cabby.
I'd also include a lot about the history: name out some of the cooler, more historically thick sites to visit in Beijing, give directions to them, say why they are what they are, why they're where they are and in the condition that they are, etc.
It'll be an intimate portrait, delving deep into the culture and how one should comport oneself -- as well as haggle, which is of dire importance.
Anywho. I wanted if there was any way that some publisher or somesuch would actually pay for me to go, under a contract of course, to research this stuff better, get really detailed and accurate with it. I know publishing houses used to do things like that, but for some reason I doubt whether they do anymore.
Anyone got any insight?
But I could! Maybe. And this is where some of your expertise may help me.
I was thinking of writing a travelly-type book about Beijing. I want to make it directed toward college students, focusing a lot on the nightlife, the restaurants, cool places to go. And I'd include direction cards, both with maps and directions written in Chinese that one could hand to one's cabby.
I'd also include a lot about the history: name out some of the cooler, more historically thick sites to visit in Beijing, give directions to them, say why they are what they are, why they're where they are and in the condition that they are, etc.
It'll be an intimate portrait, delving deep into the culture and how one should comport oneself -- as well as haggle, which is of dire importance.
Anywho. I wanted if there was any way that some publisher or somesuch would actually pay for me to go, under a contract of course, to research this stuff better, get really detailed and accurate with it. I know publishing houses used to do things like that, but for some reason I doubt whether they do anymore.
Anyone got any insight?
